afternoon all,im looking into buying something for investment and hopeing u guys can steer me in the right direction. what out there card wise or other would be a good buy? i know it not easy to pick something to invest in but what are you buying,thanks

DO NOT invest in current players or young prospects if you are talking about investment in the long term sense. The sports cards market is honestly a pretty easy market to make money in if you know what you're doing, have the time to devote to it, and DON'T OPEN WAX. If you have an interest in sports cards, but don't have a history of buying and selling and/or want to invest for the long haul there is nothing better than high end Hall of Famer autograph cards or to a smaller extent HOF memorabilia cards.

maybe $400-$500 wud be my max, i started out buying and selling rookies on ebay but as u have said it not easy to do,i dont have any hof autos so yes that seems a very good start,who in your opnion would gather nice coin in a few years, thanks

related to what Ohiomike said, go for non-sport. For example, William Shatner or Leonard Nimoy autos from any of a number of Trek sets, or one of the leading women from various shows seem like they will hold their value and increase...

hi there,yes i like this idea as never taught these cards gather so much interest,its something i would never of taught about and enjoyed looking into something new like this,would and auto piece with both signed or single cards of each would be best to do

Graded vintage cards of HOFers in decent grades I think will continue to go up.

If you are talking HOF auto sportscards from the past few years, I would say that's one of the worst investments you could make. Yes, you will have something for your PC that you will cherish and that shouldn't go down in price, but there is no reason to believe they will go up in price by any significant amount since they will continue to make more of them every year. The only time they will go up in price will be when the player dies.

Silver sure seemed to run up quickly to $30 an ounce because it seemed to struggle forever to break $20 an ounce. Seems risky to me at $30 an ounce, but you never know if the seconding coming of the Hunt Brothers tries to corner the market like in 1980. When I was a teen I remember going with my father to sell silver coins at 26 times face value!!!

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Buy Silver instead

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I disagree about silver being a good investment. It is in a bubble right now and sometime it is gonna pop.

I believe when I wrote that, Silver was still at $20 an ounce. If you had invested $10-$20k in it, and silver is now roughly $30 an ounce, well, you do the math......I've been buying Silver for the past 3 years........

Didn't seem like a bad investment to me...the only better investment I've had was selling drugs, and that's in the past.